Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 70 64
Rank change year-on-year -53 -6 -16
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,430 1,656 3,652
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 3.85% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 4.15% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 987 1,062 2,749
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,799 39,928 81,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.55% 92.95% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 42,318 22,681 59,568
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -46 1,299 £77,500 +3.33% 647
London +4 687 £87,500 +2.94% 275
Work from Home -28 618 £70,000 -2.77% 329
UK excluding London -110 618 £67,500 -3.57% 425
North of England -38 291 £69,310 -3.72% 128
North West -44 142 £70,000 -3.45% 68
South East -109 133 £73,750 +9.26% 120
Yorkshire -51 97 £69,310 -4.06% 29
South West -89 59 £58,750 -14.26% 57
Midlands -95 55 £67,500 +3.85% 59
North East +4 52 £65,000 +30.00% 31
East of England -11 40 £60,100 +4.52% 35
West Midlands -56 34 £72,500 +3.57% 28
Scotland -80 32 £62,500 -17.52% 16
East Midlands -76 20 £67,250 +5.49% 31
Wales -32 9 £53,171 -20.64% 8
Northern Ireland -34 7 £62,500 +13.64% 6
Isle of Man - 1 £35,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.19%) Confluence
3 16 (1.12%) Apache
4 15 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 14 (0.98%) IIS
6 13 (0.91%) JBoss
6 13 (0.91%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.63%) CMS
8 8 (0.56%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.28%) Appian
9 4 (0.28%) Camunda
9 4 (0.28%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.21%) Liferay
10 3 (0.21%) nginx
10 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.14%) Drupal
Applications
1 12 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.49%) Maya
4 6 (0.42%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.070%) Actimize
6 1 (0.070%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.070%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.070%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.070%) Quorum
6 1 (0.070%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.070%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.070%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 776 (54.27%) AWS
2 586 (40.98%) Azure
3 303 (21.19%) GCP
4 246 (17.20%) Serverless
5 153 (10.70%) SaaS
6 122 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
7 121 (8.46%) AWS Lambda
8 119 (8.32%) GitHub
9 109 (7.62%) Amazon S3
10 85 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
11 84 (5.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 74 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
13 70 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
14 61 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
15 56 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 55 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
17 48 (3.36%) OpenShift
18 45 (3.15%) Datadog
19 44 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
20 43 (3.01%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (4.06%) Broadband
2 15 (1.05%) Network Security
3 13 (0.91%) HTTP
4 9 (0.63%) DNS
5 7 (0.49%) AMQP
5 7 (0.49%) Firewall
5 7 (0.49%) Internet
5 7 (0.49%) VPN
6 6 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.42%) MQTT
7 5 (0.35%) DHCP
7 5 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.28%) LTE
8 4 (0.28%) SNMP
8 4 (0.28%) WAN
9 3 (0.21%) Modbus
10 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.14%) RFID
10 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (13.43%) NoSQL
2 181 (12.66%) PostgreSQL
3 149 (10.42%) MongoDB
4 102 (7.13%) SQL Server
5 77 (5.38%) MySQL
6 68 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 65 (4.55%) DynamoDB
8 49 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
10 36 (2.52%) Redis
11 35 (2.45%) BigQuery
12 27 (1.89%) Big Data
13 23 (1.61%) RDBMS
14 21 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (1.12%) Pinecone
15 16 (1.12%) Power BI
16 11 (0.77%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.77%) DB2
17 9 (0.63%) Tableau
18 7 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 193 (13.50%) Git
2 131 (9.16%) Jenkins
3 128 (8.95%) GitLab
4 50 (3.50%) JIRA
5 49 (3.43%) TeamCity
6 40 (2.80%) Cucumber
7 35 (2.45%) JUnit
8 33 (2.31%) CircleCI
9 32 (2.24%) Cypress.io
10 26 (1.82%) Selenium
11 19 (1.33%) Bitbucket
11 19 (1.33%) Mockito
12 18 (1.26%) Claude Code
13 17 (1.19%) Maven
13 17 (1.19%) Vite
14 16 (1.12%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.63%) JMeter
16 8 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.56%) Postman
16 8 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 407 (28.46%) Finance
2 330 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 153 (10.70%) Banking
4 109 (7.62%) Public Sector
5 94 (6.57%) Law
6 91 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
7 67 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 67 (4.69%) Retail
8 48 (3.36%) Telecoms
9 47 (3.29%) Financial Institution
10 37 (2.59%) Back Office
11 22 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.40%) Advertising
13 18 (1.26%) Billing
13 18 (1.26%) Legal
14 15 (1.05%) Marketing
15 13 (0.91%) Front Office
15 13 (0.91%) Games
16 11 (0.77%) Aerospace
16 11 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 485 (33.92%) Developer
2 388 (27.13%) Senior
3 274 (19.16%) Software Engineer
4 210 (14.69%) Architect
5 185 (12.94%) Lead
6 121 (8.46%) Senior Developer
7 119 (8.32%) Full-Stack Developer
8 115 (8.04%) Java Developer
9 98 (6.85%) Java Engineer
10 94 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
11 87 (6.08%) Solutions Architect
12 73 (5.10%) .NET Developer
13 60 (4.20%) Software Developer
14 57 (3.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 54 (3.78%) Lead Developer
16 53 (3.71%) DevOps Engineer
17 44 (3.08%) Principal Engineer
18 42 (2.94%) C# Developer
18 42 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
18 42 (2.94%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (21.89%) React
2 289 (20.21%) .NET
3 282 (19.72%) RESTful
4 237 (16.57%) Node.js
5 225 (15.73%) Spring
6 221 (15.45%) REST
7 205 (14.34%) Spring Boot
8 179 (12.52%) Kafka
9 110 (7.69%) AngularJS
10 92 (6.43%) gRPC
11 82 (5.73%) .NET Core
12 79 (5.52%) HTML
13 70 (4.90%) CSS
13 70 (4.90%) Vue
14 69 (4.83%) RabbitMQ
15 62 (4.34%) .NET Framework
16 60 (4.20%) ASP.NET
17 55 (3.85%) OAuth
18 53 (3.71%) Django
18 53 (3.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 412 (28.81%) Cloud Native
2 252 (17.62%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (7.55%) Product Ownership
4 88 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
5 61 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
6 59 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (3.22%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (3.15%) Over-the-Top Content
9 39 (2.73%) Algorithms
10 38 (2.66%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
12 26 (1.82%) Blockchain
13 24 (1.68%) AI Agents
13 24 (1.68%) Mobile App
13 24 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
14 21 (1.47%) Virtual Team
15 19 (1.33%) Public Cloud
16 17 (1.19%) Web3
17 16 (1.12%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 75 (5.24%) Linux
2 42 (2.94%) Windows
3 20 (1.40%) Unix
4 15 (1.05%) Android
5 7 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.35%) CentOS
6 5 (0.35%) Debian
6 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.070%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (49.93%) CI/CD
2 560 (39.16%) Agile
3 551 (38.53%) DevOps
4 531 (37.13%) Software Engineering
5 391 (27.34%) Containerisation
6 327 (22.87%) Full-Stack Development
7 310 (21.68%) Mentoring
8 294 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
9 293 (20.49%) Event-Driven
10 287 (20.07%) Test Automation
11 280 (19.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 268 (18.74%) AI
13 243 (16.99%) Infrastructure as Code
14 184 (12.87%) Computer Science
15 173 (12.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 172 (12.03%) Scrum
17 160 (11.19%) Technical Leadership
18 159 (11.12%) Coaching
19 158 (11.05%) Clean Code
20 151 (10.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 465 (32.52%) Java
2 403 (28.18%) Python
3 291 (20.35%) SQL
4 272 (19.02%) JavaScript
5 256 (17.90%) C#
6 226 (15.80%) TypeScript
7 136 (9.51%) Go
8 51 (3.57%) Scala
9 45 (3.15%) PHP
10 44 (3.08%) C++
11 38 (2.66%) Bash
12 32 (2.24%) C
13 31 (2.17%) Ruby
14 21 (1.47%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.33%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.26%) PowerShell
16 18 (1.26%) Rust
17 17 (1.19%) Shell Script
18 10 (0.70%) Groovy
19 9 (0.63%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 193 (13.50%) Degree
2 142 (9.93%) Security Cleared
3 110 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 91 (6.36%) SC Cleared
5 57 (3.99%) AWS Certification
6 33 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 31 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 29 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (1.68%) CISSP
10 24 (1.68%) DV Cleared
11 21 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (0.91%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.84%) CISM
15 8 (0.56%) PhD
16 7 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.42%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 5 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.06%) QA
2 30 (2.10%) Accessibility
2 30 (2.10%) GDPR
3 27 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.82%) PCI DSS
5 22 (1.54%) NIST
6 16 (1.12%) SOC 2
7 11 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.70%) NCSC
9 9 (0.63%) GRC
10 7 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.42%) IFRS
11 6 (0.42%) WCAG
12 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.28%) SLA
14 3 (0.21%) Data Quality
14 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.21%) SEPA
15 1 (0.070%) EMIR
System Software
1 433 (30.28%) Docker
2 14 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.28%) Firmware
4 1 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 454 (31.75%) Kubernetes
2 270 (18.88%) Terraform
3 84 (5.87%) Grafana
4 83 (5.80%) Ansible
5 44 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.10%) Argo
7 19 (1.33%) Kibana
7 19 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.70%) Puppet
9 9 (0.63%) HP Fortify
10 7 (0.49%) Cilium
11 4 (0.28%) Istio
11 4 (0.28%) Packer
11 4 (0.28%) Rancher
12 3 (0.21%) Nagios
13 2 (0.14%) MIIS
13 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.070%) Podman
Vendors
1 130 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.55%) Google
3 51 (3.57%) Oracle
4 45 (3.15%) Typelevel
5 25 (1.75%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.05%) Red Hat
8 14 (0.98%) IBM
9 13 (0.91%) AppDynamics
9 13 (0.91%) SAP
10 12 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 11 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (0.70%) Cisco
12 10 (0.70%) Databricks
12 10 (0.70%) Splunk
13 9 (0.63%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.49%) Guidewire
15 6 (0.42%) F5
15 6 (0.42%) HubSpot
15 6 (0.42%) Palo Alto